Social Sciences
- Invitation To Participate In The Humanities Extension Program: Note From Melonie St. John
Colleagues, Melonie St. John in the Nonprofits Institute is managing the Humanities Extension Program. This is a great opportunity to share your knowledge with teachers and students in nearby schools; for those of you who have included K-12 outreach as...
- America's Media Makers: Development Grants
This opportunity will be of interest to people involved in Public History and Digital Humanities. It is a major undertaking, but would certainly be worthy of our attention. Please contact the research office if we can help you prepare a proposal. America's...
- Digital Humanities In Inside Higher Education (including John Wall!)
Many of you have been following trends in what has come to be called "Digital Humanities," and John Wall, in CHASS's English Department, recently attended a meeting at the National Endowment for the Humanities on this topic. John, as many of you know,...
- Arts & Humanities: Toward A Flourishing State? Conference Announcement
The American Council of Colleges and Universities (AACU) has announced this conference, to be held on November 3-5 in Providence, Rhode Island. According to the announcement, the themes of the conference are The arts and humanities engaged by big questions,...
- News From The National Humanities Alliance
As we all know, funding for the humanities is taking a beating in the federal budget. The latest news from the National Humanities Center has details. But there is some good news in their latest news, in the form of Opportunities for Humanities Funding....
Social Sciences
Updates from Humanities Indicators
Colleagues,
I receive periodic updates from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), called "Humanities Indicators." I believe you will find these indicators interesting in your scholarship. There are trends that should concern us, but there's also information here that can help us build confidence in the value of humanities scholarship and of a degree in the humanities--news our students can use. The latest update follows. The images are a bit fuzzy, but you can click on them to see them more clearly.
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Over the past few months, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences has been active in its support for the humanities, with new reports on the employment status and earnings of humanities majors, the financial health of not-for-profit humanities organizations, metrics on the qualifications of school teachers, international comparisons of levels of adult literacy, and trends in public reading rates.
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- Invitation To Participate In The Humanities Extension Program: Note From Melonie St. John
Colleagues, Melonie St. John in the Nonprofits Institute is managing the Humanities Extension Program. This is a great opportunity to share your knowledge with teachers and students in nearby schools; for those of you who have included K-12 outreach as...
- America's Media Makers: Development Grants
This opportunity will be of interest to people involved in Public History and Digital Humanities. It is a major undertaking, but would certainly be worthy of our attention. Please contact the research office if we can help you prepare a proposal. America's...
- Digital Humanities In Inside Higher Education (including John Wall!)
Many of you have been following trends in what has come to be called "Digital Humanities," and John Wall, in CHASS's English Department, recently attended a meeting at the National Endowment for the Humanities on this topic. John, as many of you know,...
- Arts & Humanities: Toward A Flourishing State? Conference Announcement
The American Council of Colleges and Universities (AACU) has announced this conference, to be held on November 3-5 in Providence, Rhode Island. According to the announcement, the themes of the conference are The arts and humanities engaged by big questions,...
- News From The National Humanities Alliance
As we all know, funding for the humanities is taking a beating in the federal budget. The latest news from the National Humanities Center has details. But there is some good news in their latest news, in the form of Opportunities for Humanities Funding....